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by | March 3, 2007 · 12:18 pm

New Collections Available For Research

The Kentucky Library & Museum’s Manuscripts and Folklife Archives have processed and opened several new collections to researchers during the past two months. The collections include:

MSS 141 Bowling Green Ministerial Association – records keps from 1919 to 1953 including minute books, and project records.
SC 1462 Banks, Edgar James – scraps of a report signed by Banks in which he verifieds the authenticity of some Babylonian tablets.
SC 1468 Warren County Court Records – Typescript of selected entries, 1797-1820, from Warren County Circuit Court records copied by John B. Rodes.
SC 1465 Drake, William R. – 1826 deed to property in Edmonson County.
SC 1451 Hess, Nelson Irvin – 1856 Slavery obligation bond issued to N.I. Hess and L.B. Gilchrist in Gibson County, Tennessee.
SC 1466 Dulaney Family – 1855 letter written by Annie Elziabeth Dulaney Barclay in which she describes her daily life while at school; 1909 letter written by Edward Ludlow Hines outlining the Civil War experiences of Hiram W. Dulaney.
SC 1467 Greenwood & Massey’s Mill Turnpike Co. – Minute book for the Warren County company dating from 1886 to 1909. Last 2 pages contain a plat and records for the Plano Cemetery.
SC 1455 Adams, Daisy – Autograph album kept from 1886 to 1888 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
SC 1461 Peyton, Richard E. – 1904 marriage license issued in Hopkins County, Kentucky, to Peyton. He married Leaman F. Dunbar.
SC 1456 Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church – Monroe County court case involving factions of the Church, 1936.
SC 1464 Skaggs, Linda – Reminiscence about Skaggs’ grandfather, James Henderson Gross, and the Kyrock community in Edmonson County. Includes photographs of the Kyrock plant and the company’s baseball team.
SC 1463 Orr, S.H. – Report card from a school in Grayson County, Texas illustrated with leaves filled with quotations, 1875.
SC 1454 Cherry, Thomas Crittenden – Bowling Green superitendent’s report on Margaret Calvert, 190?
MSS 161 Cox Family Collection – consists of letters written to John H. Cox, Sr. of Hart County, Kentucky. The letters were written chiefly by his children. The letters exhibit the effects of World War II on a rural family, 1919-1945.
MSS 162 Beasley, Robert, Sr. – Correspondence between Beasley and his wife Louise (Buckles) Beasley during World War II. Beasley served in Germany and his wife was in Caneyville, Kentucky.
MSS 163 Schenck, Martin B. – records, photos, training materials, etc. related to the military career of Schenck who served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, 1934-2001.
MSS 164 Love Family Papers – Chiefly correspondence of the George Matthew and Nora (Sullivan) Love family, including their children Ruel, Margaret, and George Marshall Love, Sr., 1894-1959.

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by | February 1, 2007 · 3:25 pm

A Blast from the Past, 1639-1820

You can search TOPCAT by series title “Early American Imprints, First Series” and get all 36,305 or, if you know a specific title or want to limit to a subject category, you can also search in that way and limit to microform. Below is an example of one title now in TOPCAT.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
February 1, 2007

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by | January 26, 2007 · 8:36 am

Less Is More, Electronically Speaking

WKU Libraries offers several new electronic journal packages that allow access to impressive numbers of titles for existing or fewer dollars.

Just activated are the following: (1) ACM Digital Library, accessed through ACM Portal. A collection of 19 journals and magazines, 26 transactions, over 85 conference proceedings, SIG newsletters, and the ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature; (2) IEEE Computer Society Magazine Package, providing access to 14 journals (whereas previously we subscribed to 7) and backfiles to 1988. This is a subset of the IEEE Digital Library; and (3) SpringerLink consortial arrangement through ESIG (EPSCoR Scientific Information Group) that gives users access to over 1,200 Springer titles and subsidiary companies, but we pay only for our current titles. 33 titles = 1,200+ titles. Not bad! and many disciplines are covered, such as economics, marketing, psychology, educational leadership, sociology, mathematics.

Additionally, we are adding individual online titles for public health and nursing. Check with your library liaison for more information; search TOPCAT for titles and links or TDNet, our online e-journal management system.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
January 25, 2007

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by | October 25, 2006 · 2:17 pm

History E-books Expand

WKU Libraries has 1,311 e-books available through the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) E-book project. From African History to Science and Technology, these books offer wonderfully rich research material for classes and projects. Recently, 138 new bibliographic records were added. Click on databases and ACLS for a complete title listing. Select a title and watch history unfold electronically; do a word or phrase search through a book with the powerful functionality of this database.

From its web site: “The ACLS History E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, nearly 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. The Project is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers. The ACLS History E-Book Project was initially funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.”

If you would like to recommend a book of high quality and lasting merit in the field of history for this Project, please e-mail info@hebook.org with the title, author, publisher, and publication date, as well as your name, position, and affiliation. All recommendations will be added to our list for the next round of review.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
October 25, 2006

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by | October 13, 2006 · 9:11 am

Journey through north-eastern Texas

Is this a national travel opportunity? No, “Account of a journey through north-eastern Texas, undertaken in 1849 …” is one of 2,879 bibliographic records that have just been added to TOPCAT. These records will help faculty and students research special microform collections in the Kentucky Library. The two sets of collections are The Anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library and Travels in the West and Southwest.With increased title, and subject access, we hope that information access will be greatly enhanced and open up materials from 1835-1863 and from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s. Biographies, journals, campaign literature, sermons, traveler observations, and much more–what an exciting way to take a trip!

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
October 12, 2006

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by | · 9:10 am

Feminist Teacher now online

Feminist Teacher is now available online with volumes 15 and 16 currently posted. Future issues will be archived as they are published. Additional back issues will be added in the future. This title can be accessed through TOPCAT with a link or through TDNet, our electronic journal management system which has over 28,000 titles.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
October 11, 2006

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by | October 12, 2006 · 12:31 pm

African American Experience Database Available

African American Experience LogoThe African American Experience database is now available at http://aae.greenwood.com/. It is IP authenticated and allows proxy, which anyone who has an email account issued by Western Kentucky University can access the database any time, any where, so long he or she is connected to the Internet.

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by | September 6, 2006 · 3:27 pm

Library Acquires Videos from Online Media Library in Academic Technology

Over the summer the WKU Libraries acquired all of the videos from Academic Technology in Tate Page Hall (referred to as Online Media Library, or way back as Third District Film Library). We are in the process of adding these titles to our collection. The videotapes are frequently requested, and we have made arrangements for additional staffing to expedite assimilating the titles into the Main Library collection.

If you need one that is not currently available via TOPCAT through normal check-out procedures at the Circulation Desk, we would appreciate having at least 48 hours’ notice so that we can process the video and any supporting materials for class use. We can locate with the identification number used by Academic Technology to speed the process and make these media readily available. We know that many titles are heavily used and that faculty depend on these for enhancing classroom instruction.

The Circulation Desk can take the requested video number and we will work with them to process it for you.

Thanks for your understanding and help in this transition.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
September 6, 2006

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by | August 7, 2006 · 2:38 pm

Leisure Films Collection

Two years ago the libraries established a Foreign and Independent Films Committee to select DVD’s for our Leisure Films Collection.
Since that time the collection has grown to include more than 4,000 films in 44 different languages, and is the largest collection of its kind in the region. While 83% of the collection (3,464 DVD’s) is in English, the collection includes 166 films in French, 103 in Spanish, 80 in Italian, 57 in German, 56 in Hindi, 40 in Japanese, 32 in Chinese, and 29 in Russian. These were checked out more than 14,000 times last year.

The collection is located near the Cravens Library 4th Floor entrance.

DVD’s can be checked out for one week.

Some of the titles currently offered in the collection include:

The Way we Laughed.

The Way We Laughed

A story told in six separate days, between 1958 and 1964, about the lives of two Sicilian brothers. Giovanni, illiterate and hard working, arrives in Turin where young Pietro studies. Giovanni sacrifices so Pietro can become a teacher. But Pietro doesn’t really want to be a teacher, and isn’t much of a student. Winner of the prestigious Golden Lion award at the 1998 Venice Film Festival, The Way We Laughed is a richly layered drama from Gianni Amelio, the acclaimed director of the multiple-award-winning 1995 arthouse hit Lamerica.

Tous les Matins du Monde (All the Mornings of the World )

It’s late 17th century. The viola player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his

Tous les Matins du Monde

wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into which he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the viol. The story is slow-paced and lovingly-shot, and deals with love, talent and labour being lost on the road to fame and fortune in the big city. Even in the seventeenth century, musicians sold out and left emotional wreckage behind.

Xiao cheng zhi chun (Springtime in a Small Town)

Xiao cheng zhi chun (Springtime in a Small Town)

Set in the aftermath of the Second World War, in a small town that has been systematically bombed and now mostly in ruins. In a run down old house lives a husband, Liyan with a mysterious ailment, his young sister, and a wife, Yuwen, unsure of what she is looking for in life, certain only that she hasn’t found it yet, and an old manservant. Into this mix comes a doctor from the big city, visiting his old friend, Liyan. Upon arriving he is surprised to discover him married to his childhood sweetheart, the luminescent Yuwen.

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by | July 21, 2006 · 4:48 pm

Virtual Reference Service

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WILLS (Western’s Interactive Live Library Service) allows you to obtain help from a trained reference specialist via Live Chat or E-Mail. WILLS is available Monday – Thursday, 6-10 p.m. Central time. (Holiday & Interim hours vary.)

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